anesthetic
pronunciation
How to pronounce anesthetic in British English:
UK [ˌænəs'θetɪk]
How to pronounce anesthetic in American English:
US [ˌænɪsˈθɛtɪk]
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- Noun:
- a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
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- Adjective:
- characterized by insensibility
Word Origin
- anesthetic (adj.)
- alternative spelling of anaesthetic (q.v.). See ae.
Example
- 1. Dyclonine is a local anesthetic usually used in the field of dentistry .
- 2. Over time , as the anesthetic is passively eliminated from the system , the patient comes back up .
- 3. Scores for rabbits tattooed without anesthetic averaged four after the procedure , whereas before treatment , after sham treatment and after treatment with a local anesthetic scores averaged less than two .
- 4. Though both anesthetic agents were developed around the same time ( the 1840s ) chloroform soon emerged as the more widely used as it took action faster and was non-flammable .
- 5. After watching his colleague horace wells unsuccessfully promote nitrous oxide as an anesthetic , morton concentrated on the possibility of ether .